I2900: Elizabeth (ABT 1680

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2 William BRIDWELL b: abt 1708

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"Carter's Grove: Eighteenth-century Williamsburg was the hub in a network of plantations that ranged the banks of Tidewater's rivers--great farms like Carter's Grove eight miles southeast of the capital on the James River.

Colonial Williamsburg interprets more than four centuries of life at Carter's Grove. The reception center introduces visitors to 17th-century Wolstenholme Towne, the Carter's Grove mansion, the slave quarter, and the Winthrop Rockefeller Archaeology Museum. A country road, winding through woodlands, fields, and bottom lands and occasionally fording a small stream, connects the compound to Colonial Williamsburg at South England Street.

Carter Burwell, whose names combined the inheritance of two first families of Virginia, built the main house on 1,400 acres inherited from his grandfather, Robert "King" Carter of Corotoman in Lancaster County. Styled "King" by his enemies for his haughtiness and by his friends for his wealth, at his death Carter held 1,000 slaves, 300,000 acres, and £10,000. The will disposing of his possessions covered 53 sheets of paper.

When Carter's eldest daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1688, married Nathaniel Burwell of Fairfield in Gloucester County in 1709, Carter bought the James River acreage and designated for her the income it produced, but retained ownership. By that time it seems that all traces of Wolstenholme Towne, a settlement founded on the tract by 1620 by London Company of Virginia investors, had vanished.

Archaeologists began to unearth the townsite in 1976, and part of it has been schematically reconstructed. Artifacts from it are displayed at the adjoining Winthrop Rockefeller Archaeology Museum. Administrative center of Martin's Hundred plantation, the village was the Jamestown outpost hardest hit in the Uprising of 1622--a Virginia-wide Indian uprising against the English settlers. The property was still known as Martin's Hundred--sometimes corrupted to Merchant's Hundred--when Carter bought it.

Carter supervised the farm's operations; Elizabeth lived with her husband at her father-in-law's home north of the York River. Colonel William Byrd saw her there and wrote, "Mrs. Burwell is a very pretty, good humored woman." Widowed in 1721 with four minor children, she married Dr. George Nicholas of Williamsburg in April 1724 and died in 1734. By Robert Carter's will, the plantation passed to her son Carter Burwell, born October 8, 1716, when he turned 21. Carter provided that "This estate in all times to come to be called and to go by the name of Carter's Grove."

Carter Burwell moved to the property about 1737, the year before he married Lucy Grymes of Brandon in Middlesex County. She bore nine children, the first, Nathaniel, arriving April 15, 1750. Her husband served in the House of Burgesses and ran a farm that produced foodstuffs instead of tobacco. He counted among its customers royal governors and Williamsburg innkeepers.

Soon after he moved there in 1737, Burwell began to build a two-and-one-half story, five-bay Georgian brick mansion between an earlier brick kitchen and brick office. Williamsburg bricklayer David Minitree was among the workmen and may be responsible for the rubbed brick around the doorways.

Burwell brought artisan Richard Baylis, family and all, from London to do the interior woodwork. Baylis paneled the home in walnut and pine, providing its most distinctive features, particularly in the 28-foot-wide hall. A 20th-century admirer noted the grand stairway "in three runs with carved balusters and parquetry of light and dark wood on the half landings, the nail heads on the nosings covered by plugs of holly or box in three designs, the elliptical arch, the carved brackets, the Sienna marble mantled, fluted Ionic pilasters, and dentilled cornices."

It looks as if part of the residence was modeled on illustrations in William Salmon's Palladio Londinensis, an architecture book Burwell bought at the Virginia Gazette in December 1751.

About November 1755 the house was done, but Burwell lived to enjoy it for just six months. He died in May 1756 at age 41. Son Nathaniel inherited the property when he came of age on April 15, 1771. He graduated the next year from the College of William and Mary, where he won a prize for his scholarship, and married Susannah Grymes.

By then the house was well known. Helen-Louise de Chastenay Maussion, a French traveler, visited in 1787, and wrote: "While on our journey we stopped at a famous place called Carter Grove, near James River, one of the most elegant habitations in Virginia. It is really a beautiful house."

Susannah Burwell bore seven children, five of whom survived infancy, before she died in 1788. Her husband married widow Lucy Page Taylor in 1789 and fathered eight more offspring. They moved to Carter Hall in Clarke County, where he died in 1814.

Carter's Grove remained in the Burwell family until 1838, when it was sold to Thomas Wynne. For several years Wynne operated a dock on the property at which riverboat passengers disembarked and rode to Williamsburg in Wynne's "hack."

There were eight more owners before Archibald and Mollie McCrea of Lawrenceville, Virginia, bought the property from A. G. and Lucy M. Harwood on January 21, 1928. It was in poor repair. One patriotic occupant had painted Baylis's paneling red, white, and blue. There were chickens in the basement and a hole in the hall ceiling.

McCrea, the son of the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was the chairman of the board of the Union Spring and Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh. Mollie McCrea, a Petersburg, Virginia, belle, was a collateral descendant of the Burwells. The McCreas had the means and the motivation to set things aright.

The McCreas employed Richmond architect W. Duncan Lee to raise the ridge of the main roof to create room for a full third floor with dormers, rebuild the chimney stacks above the level of the second floor, connect the brick office and brick kitchen to the main house with hyphens, and make modernizations. Much of the work was inspired by William Byrd's Westover. Garden architect Arthur Shurcliff of the Williamsburg restoration did the landscaping.

When they were done, Carter's Grove, standing more than 200 feet long in five sections beneath the shade of its enormous tulip poplars, was an example of architecture's Colonial Revival movement. It is in that form that the house is presented today. Many of the furnishings belonged to the McCreas, and, down to the telephones, the decor is appropriate to the 1930s.

Obtained by the Rockefeller family's Sealantic Charitable Trust in 1964 after Mollie McCrea's death, Carter's Grove and 790 of its original acres became part of Colonial Williamsburg in 1969.

Reconstructed on the site is the slave quarter, an exhibition of mud-chinked log buildings much like those that most ordinary colonial Virginians, black and white, called home. The complex interprets the culture developed by African-Americans on the site, which dates to the 18th century."
© 2003 The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
www.history.org/Almanack/places/hb/hbcgrove.cfm.

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d. 3 Jan 1777

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"Census: 1850 - Missouri, Jackson, Blue Twp., page 280. Shows Oliver Caldwell, farmer age 58, born in Virginia. Also shows Ann Caldwell, age 54, born in Virginia; William Caldwell, age 24, born in Kentucky; Lu Ann Caldwell, age 19, born in Kentucky; and John Caldwell, age 17, born in Kentucky. Next door to Clifton Barnes and Thomas Hughes.
Facts:
1) (from Ancestry.com) - Oliver was first Smart Connection to move to Independence area. He sold 40 acres to Judge Thomas Smart in 1841 for $400. Thomas sold 144 lots to Thomas Swope for $7500 in 1859-this is now the most valuable part of Kansas city

2) (from Ancestry.com) - Bible Records of Missouri Volume VII on ancestry.comindicates he was a soldier of the War of 1812."
Children:
Eliza J. Caldwell b: BET. 1828 - 1829 d: AFT. 1850 + Clifton W. Barnes b: BET. 1823 - 1824 d: AFT. 1850
William Caldwell b: BET. 1825 - 1826 d: AFT. 1850 + Sarah Young b: ABT. 1825 d: AFT. 1840
John C. Caldwell b: BET. 1832 - 1833 d: AFT. 1860 + Elizabeth Akers b: BEF. 1812
Ardenia Smart Caldwell b: AFT. 1822 d: AFT. 1842 + William Lawrence b: ABT. 1822
+ Robert Glover Smart b: 1818 d: 1862
Lou Ann Caldwell b: BET. 1830 - 1831 d: AFT. 1860 + W. B. Stone b: BET. 1812 - 1813 d: AFT. 1860
Mary Susan Caldwell b: 25 JAN 1824 d: 25 APR 1906 + Thomas J. Hughes b: BET. 1814 - 1815 d: 4 JUL 1854

1860 - Missouri, Jackson, Independence, page 265. Shows W. B. Stone, physician age 47, born in Tennessee. Also shows Lu Ann Stone, age 30, born in Kentucky; James G. Stone, clerk age 21, born in Missouri; B. W. Stone, male medical student age 20, born in Missouri; William B. Stone, age 18, born in Illinois; Mary C. Stone, age 11, born in Missouri; John G. Stone, age 2, born in Missouri; and Infant Stone, female age 1/12, born in Missouri. Also shows Ann Caldwell, age 62, born in Virginia; Eliza Barnes, age 9, born in Missouri; and John C. Caldwell, farmer age 28, born in Kentucky.

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ROGER FITZ RICHARD (5), 1st Lord of Warkworth & Clavering., M Alice, d. of Aubrey de Vere (See VERE). Died 1178. He had issue: Weis, p 214 MCS, p 106.

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children:
i. Lonnie Lafeyette PRIDGEN
ii. Mary Ellen PRIDGEN.
iii. Jack Kermit PRIDGEN.
iv. Henry Edward PRIDGEN was born on 1 Jul 1912. He died on 3 Nov 1975.
v. Issac Ernest PRIDGEN.
vi. Sudie Virginia PRIDGEN.
vii. George Ray PRIDGEN.
viii. James Douglas PRIDGEN.
ix. Harper PRIDGEN.
x. Mattie Belle PRIDGEN was born on 24 Jun 1927. (962) She died on 30 Aug 1936. ^[S1169]

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LDS: (AFN:P0J7-VS) Born: 1633 Place: Richmond, Virginia Died: 10 Jul 1708

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Letitia Christian TYLER birth b: 1842 in White House,Washington, DC d died 1927 unmarried.

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Mrs. J E Boston?

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The Colonel's third son was Lazarus; he lived in Nash County , North Carolina. He accumulated large acreage, more than 3400 acres on the north side of Swift Creek, south of the Halifax line, adjacent to Edgecome County.

My Southern Family

Elizabeth

ABT 1680 - BEF 1706

ID Number: I2900

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William BIRDWELL

ABT 1708 - ____

ID Number: I95922

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Carter BURWELL of Carter's Grove

8 Oct 1716 - May 1756

ID Number: I47943

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Oliver C. CALDWELL

1792 - 30 Dec 1853

ID Number: I63864

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ROGER FitzRichard de FITZ EUSTACE 1st Lord of Warkworth

ABT 1106 - 1178

ID Number: I38660

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Frances HIGGINBOTHAM

ABT 1797 - ____

ID Number: I15885

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Isaac Loftin PRIDGEN

10 Feb 1876 - 19 May 1967

ID Number: I30035

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Nathaniel REYNOLDS

1633 - 10 Jul 1708

ID Number: I28489

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Stephen Charles RUDLOFF

Letitia Christian TYLER

1842 - 1927

ID Number: I80384

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Annie WEAVER

ABT 1890 - AFT 1934

ID Number: I55180

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Amanda WEBSTER

1855 - 1927

ID Number: I76468

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Lazarus WHITEHEAD

____ - ____

ID Number: I99243

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